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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (261967)	6/7/2002 8:40:00 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Two post-Sept 11th events really pointed in this direction: 1) Ashcroft calling for the power to hold suspects indefinitely without charges. 2) Ari Fleischer calling anyone who criticized the prez unpatriotic and unsupportive of the war. Both incidents are edging towards a McCarthy-revival. People look back at certain periods in history, such as the internment of Japanese-Americans and the passivity of the German population under Hitler, and say "how could that ever happen?" Well, it happens in stages, and usually involves fear leading to loss of freedoms and eventual justification/rationalization of such abuses. I hear more and more people say that the loss of freedom is the price of safety. But, isn't our system based on certain ABSOLUTE rights that cannot 'depend on the historical context'? Isn't the loss of those absolute, inalienable rights in fact an explicit violation of the Constitution? Ashcroft seems to view the Constitution as a roadblock to his doing his job.